Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Sensory Language
Poetry Elements
Poetry Examples
100

Name the six types of figurative language

simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, analogy & hyperbole

100

Name the seven types of sound devices

Anaphor, repetition, internal rhyme, end rhyme, alliteration, assonance & consonance.

100

What's sensory language?

It's when the author's description of the text creates an image in the readers and a mood through the five senses.

100

What's a verse?

Each line in a poem

100

Your love takes me to the sky.

Personification & Hyperbole

200

What’s the meaning of hyperbole?

Is an exaggeration

200

What's the meaning of alliteration?

The repeated consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words in a verse.

200

Which sense is the author developing?

The blue, deep calm ocean gives me peace.

sight

200

What's a stanza?

A group of verses.

200

Black is death

white is purity 

and red is passion

Symbolism

300

What’s the meaning of onomatopoeia?

A sound related to an object or animal.

300

What's the difference between alliteration and consonance?

In alliteration the repeated consonance sound is at the beginning and in consonance is in the middle or at the end.

300

Which sense is the author developing?

The juicy, sour and fresh orange.

Taste

300

What's the the meter?

To separate each verse into syllables.

300

Someday I will be Steve Jobs.

Analogy

400

What’s the difference between metaphor & simile?

Simile use as or like to compare and metaphor uses a verb to be.

400

What's the difference between anaphor and repetition?

In anaphor the repetition of words is at the beginning of the verse and in repetition is within the verse.

400

Which sense is the author developing?

the loud, joyful and continuous laughs.

Hearing

400

What's the rhyme scheme?

It is the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry, it uses letters to identify them.

400

Find the figurative language elements in the text.

Pollution is a lethal weapon

who’s killing the world day by day

It disappears the city with a big cloud

and then it looks like a foggy night

Metaphor, personification & hyperbole

500

Which is the figurative language element used to compare something to someone famous?

Analogy

500

Identify and name the sound devices used in the text.

Love is like a lullaby

It is sweet as its beat

Love is full of peace

so you can share a bit

Anaphora, alliteration. assonance, consonance, internal rhyme & end rhyme

500

Which sense is the author developing?

The delicate, soft, cotton sweater reminded me the delicate fragrance of my mom's fruity perfume.

Touch and smell

500

Name the two types of meter?

Iambic and trochaic

500

What type of meter does this verse have? Explain

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

Trochaic meter

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